- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:43:38 +0100
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Larry Masinter wrote: > My view was that ISSUE-60 on namespaces could be addressed if there > is a versioning mechanism which can disambiguate between different > languages that share the same namespace (as a possible resolution > to ISSUE-4). How about this: before we start contemplating solutions to the problem of sharing the namespace with XHTML2, we should understand why the problem needs to exist in the first place. The XHTML2 WG need to provide some really solid technical justification for *why* they need to use the same namespace, which they have never even attempted to provide. Sharing the same namespace is doing nothing but creating an unnecessary problem that, frankly, should not be our responsibility to deal with, and the whole issue could be avoided by XHTML2 using a different namespace. If this issue is to be pursued at all, then it should be taken to the XHTML2 WG, and the XHTML2 WG should provide valid technical justification for why this problem needs to be created at all. Without such justification, spending time working on a solution to the problems they're unnecessarily creating is a waste of our time and effort. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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